Sooooo, I’ve already changed my mind about the colors for my SSKAL League sweater. I kept thinking it over and it was nagging at my brain that I would not like the navy with the bright orange. I gave in and decided that buying one more skein would not be a tragedy. I went with more Miss Babs Keira in Juniper.
The little accent color by the shoulder will be the French Marigold (orange) and the sleeves will be Juniper. I will have PLENTY of the French Marigold left for other projects since I really only need to use 70 yards out of the 560, but I love this color, so that’s not a tragedy. I will probably use every scrap of the Juniper since I have slightly less than the yardage requirements by a handful of yards. However, my gauge is a bit looser since this yarn is a heavier fingering weight. My row gauge might just get me there without much issue. As it gets closer to time to do the sleeves I plan on dividing the ball into equal skeins, or just knitting them both at the same time so that they’re even. The sleeves are worked from the bottom up. I might try to reverse that, or just gamble and rip some out if I must. I am feeling confident about it though, because the yardage is really close. Worst case scenario, I have a little more knitting time and three-quarter sleeves. No big deal.
I’m further along with the front than shown in the picture, since I usually have some delay time between photos, processing them, and actually getting the blogging done. I’m now at the part where I will start using the French Marigold but the yarn label suggests prewashing yarns with high contrast to make sure the dye is set. I’ve never seen that on a yarn label before, so I want to take it seriously. It’s nice that they acknowledge and suggest that, because sometimes bleeding happens and sometimes that’s devastating. I wish I’d seen it before I weighed and wound off my precise little balls of yarn, but at least I noticed before I started knitting.
This year I’m really pumped about my upcoming knitting. I have the next few projects in my Ravelry queue. I cleaned up the queue to reflect my anticipated projects more accurately. What are you excited about knitting for fall?
Color is very important. Better to change it now than to finish the sweater and hate it.
Agreed! It was bugging me to much to relax and knit.
I’d never have chosen those colors but wow! I love them together! I’m also very impressed that you have an actual, knitable Rav que.
Thanks! My queue was full of things that were favorites but I had already knit them or aspired to knit them, but long ago changed my mind. It felt good to delete everything and put in all things that were more immediate.
I’m excited that I should get the two sweaters I had planned done this summer:)
Just a thought; to conserve the Juniper, maybe add some sleeve cuff striping with the Marigold. I love the Juniper with the grey and Marigold. Good decision!